Daily Readings for Saturday 21st June 2025

Daily Prayer - Saturday
Saturday
- Give thanks to God that we have good news of salvation to tell that the repentant sinner might have everlasting life through Jesus Christ. (John  3.16.)
- Pray the Lord would bless the Gospel outreach by the church in Westminster. Both on Saturday mornings and at services.
​- Pray the Lord would work in the contacts we have made both on Saturday mornings and at services; through personal conversations and online contacts.



Church Services
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer.



Daily Reading Plan - First Year
Preface - The confession of him that offereth the basket of firstfruits. The prayer of him that giveth his third year's tithes. The covenant between God and the people.
Deuteronomy 26
Psalms 117) Preface - An exhortation to praise God for his mercy and truth.
​Psalms 118) Preface - An exhortation to praise God for his mercy. The Psalmist by his own experience sheweth how good it is to trust in God. Under the type of the Psalmist the coming of Christ in his kingdom is expressed.
Psalms 117-118



Daily Light - Morning
Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example,
that ye should follow his steps.

Even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. - Whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.

Jesus of Nazareth....went about doing good. - Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

The meekness and gentleness of Christ. - In lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. - Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. - Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
1 Pe. 2.21; Mk. 10.45; Mk. 10.44
Ac. 10.38; Ga. 6.2
2 Co. 10.1; Phil. 2.3
Lu. 23.34; Eph. 4.32
1 Jn. 2.6; He. 12.2



Daily Light - Evening
I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him,
but he gave me no answer.

O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!....and the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? Israel hath sinned....for they have even taken of the accursed thing....and they have put it even among their own stuff.

Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
Song 5.6; Jos. 7.8,10-11
Isa. 59.1-2
Ps. 66.18
​1 Jn. 3.21-22
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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 59 - Which is the eighth commandment?
The eighth commandment is, Thou shalt not steal.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day
Chapter 22
PARAGRAPH 6
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Neither prayer nor any other part of religious worship, is now under the gospel, tied unto, or made more acceptable by any place in which it is performed, or towards which it is directed; but God is to be worshipped everywhere in spirit and in truth;  (23)  as in private families  (24)  daily,  (25)  and in secret each one by himself;  (26)  so more solemnly in the public assemblies, which ae not carelessly nor willfully to be neglected or forsaken, when God by his word or providence calls thereunto.  (27)
(23)-John 4.21; Mal. 1.11; 1 Tim. 2.8  (24)-Acts 10.2  (25)-Matt. 6.11; Ps. 55.17  (26)-Matt. 6.6  (27)-Heb. 10.25; Acts 2.42

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Christ within the veil
.... and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna ....
Hebrews 9 v 4

When God led Israel through the wilderness, 'He fed them with the corn of heaven; man did eat angels' food.' He rained down manna on them every morning for forty years. At that time God commanded them to preserve an omer of it (enough for one person) in a golden pot, 'that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness' (Exodus 16 v 32). Paul here tells us it was kept in a golden pot, beside the ark within the veil. There can be no doubt that the manna was a type of Jesus - the nourishment of His people. The bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world. 'I am the bread of life' (John 6 v 33). But the hidden manna represented Christ within the veil; and accordingly, the promise to him that overcometh in the Church of Smyrna runs thus: 'To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna' (Rev. 2 v 17). Jesus is not to be our food only in the wilderness, but in eternity; we shall still feed on that hidden manna - that bread of God.